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/ June 30, 2026
Amalie Arena opened on October 20, 1996, as the Ice Palace in the Channelside District of Downtown Tampa, Florida. Built at a cost of approximately $139 million and owned by Hillsborough County, the 19,092-seat multipurpose arena became the permanent home of the NHL’s Tampa Bay
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/ June 29, 2026
EverBank Stadium sits on the banks of the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, serving as the home of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars since the franchise’s inaugural 1995 season. Built on the site of the old Gator Bowl Stadium and completed in under 20
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/ June 28, 2026
Wild Waters was a beloved 6-acre water park in Silver Springs, Florida, opening on April 28, 1978. Built by ABC Television as a sister attraction to the adjacent Silver Springs Nature Theme Park, it ranked among the first parks in the American South to use
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/ June 28, 2026
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is a 335-acre Africa-themed park in Tampa, Florida, that doubles as one of the region’s premier accredited zoos. Opened on March 31, 1959, as a hospitality attraction for the Anheuser-Busch brewery, it evolved over decades into a full-scale theme park featuring
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/ June 27, 2026
SeaWorld Orlando opened on December 15, 1973, as the third park in the SeaWorld chain, spread across 200 acres in Orlando, Florida. Acquired by Anheuser-Busch in 1989, the park was rebuilt from a show-driven marine attraction into a ride-intensive destination. Now owned and operated by
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/ June 26, 2026
Universal Studios Florida opened on June 7, 1990, as the flagship park of what would become Universal Orlando Resort. Set on roughly 107 acres in Orlando, Florida, it was originally envisioned as both an active movie production facility and a themed entertainment destination — a
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/ June 24, 2026
EPCOT opened on October 1, 1982, as the second theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. Derived from Walt Disney’s original vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, the park was reimagined after his death as a permanent world’s fair
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/ June 24, 2026
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is a 135-acre theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, that opened on May 1, 1989, under the name Disney–MGM Studios. Conceived as both a working production facility and a guest-facing celebration of Hollywood, it was the
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/ June 23, 2026
Disney’s Blizzard Beach is a water theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, that opened on April 1, 1995. Built around the playful premise of a failed Florida ski resort, the park features a sprawling alpine aesthetic complete with ski lifts,
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/ June 23, 2026
Magic Kingdom opened on October 1, 1971, as the anchor park of Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida. Modeled closely after Disneyland in Anaheim, the 107-acre park debuted with 23 attractions spread across six themed lands, welcoming guests with admission priced at $3.50
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/ June 22, 2026
Disney’s Typhoon Lagoon opened on June 1, 1989, at the Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, making it Disney’s second water park and today one of two operating alongside Blizzard Beach. Built around the playful legend of a catastrophic tropical storm that
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/ June 18, 2026
Slinky Dog Dash is a family launched steel roller coaster located in Toy Story Land at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Manufactured by Mack Rides and designed by Walt Disney Imagineering, it opened on June 30, 2018, as one of two headline
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/ June 15, 2026
🏛 Historic Stadium The Miami Orange Bowl was a legendary outdoor stadium situated in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, Florida. Originally opened on December 10, 1937 as Burdine Stadium, the venue served as home to the Miami Hurricanes college football team for over seven
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/ June 15, 2026
Kumba opened on April 21, 1993, at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida, instantly rewriting the state’s coaster record books as Florida’s tallest, fastest, and longest roller coaster of its era. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger and Mabillard, the ride stands 143 feet tall,
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/ June 15, 2026
SheiKra is a steel Dive Coaster at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida, designed by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger and Mabillard. When it opened on May 21, 2005, it became the first Dive Coaster in North America and immediately set records as the world’s tallest,
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/ June 15, 2026
Montu is a steel inverted roller coaster located in the Egypt section of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay in Tampa, Florida. Designed by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and opened on May 16, 1996, it towers 150 feet tall and sends riders hurtling through seven inversions
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/ June 14, 2026
Mako is a steel hypercoaster at SeaWorld Orlando in Orlando, Florida, built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and opened on June 10, 2016. Standing 200 feet tall and stretching 4,760 feet of track, it debuted as the tallest, fastest, and longest roller coaster in
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